Vienna Symphony Jazz Project .

The 11 man small big band ensemble „Vienna Symphony Jazz Project“evolved out of a sextet in the early 1980´s.For this project we chose compositions out of our all day music life in the“Vienna Symphony Orchestra”.The ensemble work stays in foreground versus the solo-parts.There are short features for a few musicians of the ensemble like theoutstanding vibraphone player “Flip Philipp” who also arranged all the pieceson this record.After listening to Duke Ellington´s “Nutcracker Suite” and “Peer Gynt Suite”Flip Philipp decided to use the same idea for the „Vienna Symphony JazzProject“.He chose the famous “Bolero” of Ravel and changed the 3 /4 bar ostinatosnare drum pattern to a kind of in the 60´s very beloved Boogaloo dancerhythm. Please note the main theme played by the violin.At the same time Flip Philipp was working at the Bregenz Opera House doingVerdi´s “Aida” every night and that was the rolling stone for making a Jazzversion of this piece full of howling and humming melodies.The Project also performs a nice Bossa Nove version of Georg FriedrichHändel´s 6th Aria took out of the “Messia”, including a wonderful and sublimeFluegelhorn solo done by Heinrich Bruckner.After that the scene changes to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart´s “Tuba Mirrum”took from the famous requiem which arranger Flip Philipp transferred into a3 /4 Gospel Waltz feeling. After the main theme played by the trombone abluesy violin solo follows with some lyrical background comping by theensemble.The real classic lover also can find Peter Ilitsch Tschaikowsky´s overtureversion of “Romeo and Juliet”.The famous love theme in the middle of the song one can find a lot ofHollywood movie´s.Flip Philipp mentioned Woody Allen´s “The Last Night Of Boris Gruschenko” asan inspiration and build up a suspenseful Big Band version of the variousmelodies of Tschaikowsky´s joyful and passionate composition.